Very easy, just add a repository and run apt-get install postresql-9.0 
Dctr Watson explains how:
Tag Archive: DBMS
I asked Jeff Tallman if I could redistribute his excellent MDA posters for Sybase’s ASE 15.5 database server. He said yes so … here they are in both Adobe PDF and Sybase PowerDesigner PDM formats!
Jeff Tallman also provided us with the MDA posters for Sybase 15.0.3 last year.
Lewis Cunningham 
has once again given us a gem from the world of Oracle’s relational DBMS! This time, he has written ORA_Tweet, an API to send/receive Tweets (microblog posts) from within Oracle 11g. Major kudos to Lewis Cunningham for writing and releasing ORA Tweet to Sourceforge.net
Call the Twitter API from within an Oracle database. ORA_Tweet uses the UTL_HTTP API within Oracle to call the update_status API. It is written completely in PL/SQL.
So, my question is… Will someone write a Flickr API for Sybase ASE?
The latest craze from software vendors to companies is to charge for each and every core a machine has regardless of whether or not you’re going to use it.
Get this, if you want to buy a production license for your database/middleware/web server, the vendor (starts with an “S”) wants you to send them the hardware specs of the box. If you tell them it is a Dell superduper server with 8 quad core CPUs and 96GBytes of RAM but you only will be using a single core for the database and devoting the rest to the middleware/webserver, you STILL have to pay the vendor for all 32 cores (8 CPUs X 4 cores). Your software license costs is now 32 times MORE what you should have to pay IMHO.
Lots of software companies are now doing this anti-customer practice just to beef up their short term revenues.
What makes them think that you won’t go to another vendor?
- Their competitors are probably doing the same sales tactic
- They have you by the family jewels, vendor lock in, and it will cost you far too much $$$ to migrate
- They think that you’re too stupid and/or timid to call their bluff
- FUD that is spread by well meaning and well known folk that don’t know jack about the open source alternatives
Who the hell do they think they are?
David Wein is a well known and highly respected engineer at Sybase working on Adaptive Server Enterprise. I’m reposting his blog article here to help increase the exposure of his request for comments:
I am working on a future version of ASE and am interested
in hearing about your experiences with the logical process manager (LPM). LPM consists of engine groups and execution classes, as well as the ability to set spid priority in an ad-hoc manner via sp_setpsexe. This functionality is sometimes referred to as application queues.
If you have used this feature I’d like to know:
- What was the use case (in other words, why did you use it)?
- What elements did you use? How did you use it?
- Did it meet your needs? Did you run into problems?
- Any shortcomings or requirements that weren’t met?
- What was your overall impression?
If you evaluated the functionality but chose not to use it, please let me know what you were trying to accomplish and why you decided against using LPM.
Finally, if you have use cases or requirements around managing multiple applications in a single ASE server, or managing the priority / resources of specific spids, please pass those along. Unaddressed use cases are extremely useful to hear about.
Please provide your feedback directly to me at david.wein@sybase.com, and include “logical process manager feedback” in the mail subject (I get a lot of mail and this will help make sure I don’t miss your mail!). Please be as detailed and specific as you can about your use cases and results.
Thanks a bunch,
Dave
Let’s help Dave, and ourselves, out by giving him our experiences with the logical process manager. Please be descriptive as “it sucks” or “it’s great” doesn’t really help. 
If anyone wants to post their experiences to this blog post, that’s okay too. I’ll forward any comments to Dave.
